BI / MBI Sections
Destructive Conflict is the Most Serious Threat to Our Common FutureBeyond Intractability Sections
Interconnected learning materials to help everyone better deal with intractable conflicts.
Educators
Consider a very low-cost BI-based custom text.
Things You Can Do to Help
Practical things we can all do to limit the destructive conflicts threatening our future.
Conflict Frontiers
Frontier-of-the-field explorations of what makes so many conflicts intractable and what to do about it.
Conflict Fundamentals
Quick summaries of the conflict and peacebuilding field’s fundamental building blocks.
BI in Context
Quality news and feature articles exploring the full range of intractable conflict-related topics.
Colleague Activities
Information about the intractable conflict-related activities of the conflict and peacebuilding fields
Recent Posts
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Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 29
In addition to more links to interesting projects that our democracy, conflict, and peace colleagues are doing, recommended articles on political moderates, the lifetime insights of prominent social activists, ways of limiting done violence, and other topics.
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Revisiting the Gun Violence Issue and America's Declining Trust and Increasing Sense of Threat
A look at what we know about reducing the mutual hostility (associated with escalation and hyper-polarization dynamics) that contributes so much to mass shootings, gun deaths, and interpersonal and political violence.
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Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess: Massively Parallel Peacebuilding vs. Massively Parallel Partisanship
Advocacy plays a key role in Massively Parallel Peacebuilding. But, this role can either be supportive and helpful, or destructive, depending on how it is done.
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Julia Roig: Where Does Civil Resistance and Social Justice Fit in MPP?
How do we distinguish when taking a stand is what’s absolutely called for – because we’ve reached the tipping point of uncivil politics/undemocratic behaviors? But perhaps we need to find a better way of doing it.
Beyond Intractability Sections
Interconnected learning materials to help everyone better deal with intractable conflicts.
Educators
Consider a very low-cost BI-based custom text.
Things You Can Do to Help
Practical things we can all do to limit the destructive conflicts threatening our future.
Conflict Frontiers
Frontier-of-the-field explorations of what makes so many conflicts intractable and what to do about it.
Conflict Fundamentals
Quick summaries of the conflict and peacebuilding field’s fundamental building blocks.
BI in Context
Quality news and feature articles exploring the full range of intractable conflict-related topics.
Colleague Activities
Information about the intractable conflict-related activities of the conflict and peacebuilding fields
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